See also: CEPT and 'cept

Latvian

Etymology

Traditionally derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Baltic *pek- (metathesized to *kep-), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (to roast, to cook), from earlier *h₃-ép-kʷ-, *h₃p-ékʷ-. A more recent theory derives it from a putative (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-, a parallel (metathesized) form of *kep-, *kʷep- (to smoke, to cook), formed from *tep- (to be hot, to heat up) on the model of *kel-, *tel- “to build.” Cognates include (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lithuanian (deprecated template usage) kèpti, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Church Slavonic (deprecated template usage) пєшти (pešti), 1st. pers. pres. (deprecated template usage) пєкѫ (pekǫ), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian (deprecated template usage) печь (pečʹ), (deprecated template usage) пеку (pekú), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Belarusian (deprecated template usage) пекці (pjekcí), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ukrainian (deprecated template usage) печи (pečý), (deprecated template usage) пекти (pektý), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Bulgarian (deprecated template usage) пека (peká) (1st. pers. pres.), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Czech (deprecated template usage) péci, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Polish (deprecated template usage) piec, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sanskrit (deprecated template usage) पचति (pácati), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) πέσσω (péssō) (< *pekwiō), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) coquere, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Tocharian A, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Tocharian B (deprecated template usage) pāk-.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

cept (transitive, 1st conjugation, present cepu, cep, cep, past cepu)

  1. to fry (to cook in hot fat, often one side and then the other)
    cept gaļas šķēles uz pannas — to fry meat slices on a (frying) pan
    cept kotletes, pankūkas — to fry meatballs, pancakes
    cepts speķisfried bacon
    ceptas olasfried eggs
    kundze pannā izkausēja krietnu margarīna piku un cepa līdaku — the lady melted a big slab of butter on the pan and fried the pike (fish)
  2. to roast, to broil, to grill, to bake (to cook, usually without fat, with heat coming equally from all sides)
    cept gaļu — to roast meat
    cept maizi — to bake bread
    cept šašliku, desiņas uz iesma — to broil meat, sausages on a spit
    cept sacepumu cepeškrāsnī — to bake a pie in the oven
    Oliņu tēvs darīja alu, un Oliņu māte cepa raušus — Father Oliņš brewed beer, and mother Oliņa baked the cakes
    Mare pašlaik cepa iesmā uzdurtu gaļas gabalu — Mare is now broiling a piece of meat on a spit

Conjugation

Derived terms

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See also

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “cept”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN